Combatting Islamophobia

Combatting Islamophobia

Janan Najeeb, President of the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition and Director of the Islamic Resource Center, was the keynote speaker at the 2018 WEAC Professional Issues Conference. In this video, she discusses the challenges that Muslims face in a society that often fails to make an effort to understand them.

Nagla Bedir and Luma Hasan, both social studies teachers in New Jersey, co-founded Teaching While Muslim to help address some of the challenges and frustrations they experienced as students growing up as Muslim Americans. Pledge to grow the movement for racial justice in education.

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NEA President Lily Eskelsen García on Friday said the country is facing “a reckless, irresponsible administration that creates chaos and confusion.” Speaking to the National Press Club, she said President Trump “creates fear in children, and that is unforgivable.” Educators, she said, at times have to “comfort crying children because they are afraid of their president.”
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“Shortly after the election, one of my Muslim students told me that her family was worried after receiving a handwritten note in their mailbox that said it was ‘Time to move. Trump won and is coming for you.’ These type of hate incidents are not only about an individual’s faith. Educators have seen a rise ...

As educators and students return to the classroom for a new school year, the troubling and tragic events that took place last weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia, are on the minds of many. And for many students, the events hit home, stoking emotions that include confusion, anxiety and fear. Students are grappling to understand racism and ...

“Violence grounded in hatred and ignorance did not begin with Trump, of course. I remember an incident a few years ago when Prabhjot Singh, a Sikh doctor, was knocked from his bike and beaten by a group of people calling him a ‘terrorist.’ But there is no question that things have gotten worse since Trump ...

In testimony before Congress Wednesday, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos refused to say she would deny federal funding of private schools that discriminate against students. That, and other responses from DeVos to questioning by members of a House appropriations committee during a review of the Trump administration’s education budget proposal, prompted NEA President Lily Eskelsen ...